%0 Journal Article %J BMC Public Health %D 2022 %T Methodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe: a systematic literature review %A Charalampous, Periklis %A Elena Pallari %A Vanessa Gorasso %A Elena von der Lippe %A Brecht Devleesschauwer %A Sara M. Pires %A Plass, Dietrich %A Jane Idavain %A Henry Ngwa Che %A Isabel Noguer %A Alicia Padron-Monedero %A Rodrigo Sarmiento %A Marek Majdan %A Ádám, Balázs %A Ala’a Alkerwi %A Seila Cilovic-Lagarija %A Benjamin Clarsen %A Barbara Corso %A Sarah Cuschieri %A Keren Dopelt %A Mary Economou %A Fischer, Florian %A Alberto Freitas %A Juan Manuel García-González %A Federica Gazzelloni %A Artemis Gkitakou %A Hakan Gulmez %A Paul Hynds %A Gaetano Isola %A Lea S Jakobsen %A Kabir, Zubair %A Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek %A Ann Kristin Knudsen %A Naime Meriç Konar %A Carina Ladeira %A Brian Lassen %A Aaron Liew %A Marjeta Majer %A Enkeleint A. Mechili %A Mereke, Alibek %A Lorenzo Monasta %A Stefania Mondello %A Joana Nazaré Morgado %A Evangelia Nena %A Edmond S. W. Ng %A Vikram Niranjan %A Iskra Alexandra Nola %A Rónán O’Caoimh %A Panagiotis Petrou %A Vera Pinheiro %A Miguel Reina Ortiz %A Silvia Riva %A Samouda, Hanen %A João Vasco Santos %A Cornelia Melinda Adi Santoso %A Milena Santric Milicevic %A Dimitrios Skempes %A Aana Catarina Sousa %A Speybroeck, Niko %A Fimka Tozija %A Brigid Unim %A Hilal Bektaş Uysal %A Fabrizio Giovanni Vaccaro %A Orsolya Varga %A Milena Vasic %A Francesco Saverio Violante %A Grant M.A. Wyper %A Polinder, Suzanne %A Juanita A. Haagsma %K burden of disease %K Burden of Injury %K Disability-Adjusted Life Years %K methodology %K REVIEW %X

Background: Calculating the disease burden due to injury is complex, as it requires many methodological choices. Until now, an overview of the methodological design choices that have been made in burden of disease (BoD) studies in injury populations is not available. The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify existing injury BoD studies undertaken across Europe and to comprehensively review the methodological design choices and assumption parameters that have been made to calculate years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD) in these studies.

Methods: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, and the grey literature supplemented by handsearching, for BoD studies. We included injury BoD studies that quantified the BoD expressed in YLL, YLD, and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) in countries within the European Region between early-1990 and mid-2021.

Results: We retrieved 2,914 results of which 48 performed an injury-specific BoD assessment. Single-country independent and Global Burden of Disease (GBD)-linked injury BoD studies were performed in 11 European countries. Approximately 79% of injury BoD studies reported the BoD by external cause-of-injury. Most independent studies used the incidence-based approach to calculate YLDs. About half of the injury disease burden studies applied disability weights (DWs) developed by the GBD study. Almost all independent injury studies have determined YLL using national life tables.

Conclusions: Considerable methodological variation across independent injury BoD assessments was observed; differences were mainly apparent in the design choices and assumption parameters towards injury YLD calculations, implementation of DWs, and the choice of life table for YLL calculations. Development and use of guidelines for performing and reporting of injury BoD studies is crucial to enhance transparency and comparability of injury BoD estimates across Europe and beyond.

%B BMC Public Health %V 22 %8 Jan-12-2022 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1186/s12889-022-13925-z